Product Description: This collection of Alaskan adventures begins with a newspaper article written by John Muir during his first visit to Alaska in 1879, when the sole U.S. government representative in all the territory's 586,412 square miles was a lone customs official in Sitka...read more

Product Description: Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Alaska. Pan for gold with dry gulchers and claim jumpers. Duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, hiss at lawmen turned outlaws. A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the Last Frontier...read more

Product Description: Readers will be shocked and fascinated at these factual accounts which Ed Ferrell has cut from old publications and trimmed of fat. Each chapter is like a piece of beef jerky: raw, tough, full of flavor, and no two are the same. Anyone will enjoy chewing

Product Description: The Frozen Toe Guide to Real Alaskan Livin' both embraces and instructs readers on everything one needs to know to be a true Alaskan, or at least to look the part. Combining both handbook format with anecdotal bits about the author’s own experiences moving to the state, the book advises readers on such topics ranging from winter survival skills to regional fashion to Alaskan dating advice to extreme sports...read more

Brings together a collection of real-life adventures and travel writing about America's last frontier, in an anthology that features contributions by Dana Stabenow, Peter Jenkins, Spike Walker, Jay Hammond, Nick Jans, and other outdoor writers. Original. 20,000 first printing.

A traveler's update on America's last frontier shares stories from across this great state, from Inupiat villagers killing a Bowhead whale to flights with bush pilots around Denali, with essays by Jon Krakauer, Tim Cahill, Joe McGinnis, Ian Frazier, Pam Houston, and others. Original.

A selection of essays, reminiscences, and other writings by such distinguished authors as John Muir, Jack London, Gary Paulsen, and Dana Stabenow capture the rich natural beauty of America's last great frontier in such sections as The Early Explorers, Mount McKinley, Walking with Wildlife, The Iditarod, and Survival. Original. (view table of contents)

An anthology of travel writing about Alaska offers twenty-eight accounts dating from 1879 to the present, and includes writings by John Muir, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Charles Kuralt, Ernie Pyle, and John McPhee